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Party and State Leaders and People of Peking Hold Solemn Memorial Meeting for Comrade Chou En-lai
With deepest grief, Chinese party and state leaders and more then 5,000 representatives from various circles in Peking mourn the death of Comrade Chou En-lai, a fine member of the Communist Party of China, a great proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding communist fighter, and an eminent, long-tested party and state leader of the Chinese people.

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Party and State Leaders and People of Peking Hold Solemn Memorial Meeting for Comrade Chou En-lai
With deepest grief, Chinese party and state leaders and more then 5,000 representatives from various circles in Peking mourn the death of Comrade Chou En-lai, a fine member of the Communist Party of China, a great proletarian revolutionary, an outstanding communist fighter, and an eminent, long-tested party and state leader of the Chinese people. The solemn memorial meeting was held in the Great Hall of the People on January 15. A portrait of Comrade chou En-lai is hung in the centre of the hall. Beneath the portrait is the casket containing his ashes which is draped in the flag of the Communist Party of China and is surrounded by evergreens and flowers.

The wreaths presented by the great leader Chairman Mao and the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party.

The wreath presented by Comrade Teng Ying-chao, member of the party central committee and Comrade Chou En-lai's old comrade-in-arms and widow.

Wreaths presented by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Military Commission of the Party's central committee, the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, the departments under the party, government and the army; mass organizations, the P.L.A. high military area commands, the party committees and revolutionary committees of 29 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, and patriotic compatriots of Taiwan province.